Good to see the UM fans on here rallying to UF's side. Really warms the heart of longtime UM fans.
I am not here to rally to UF's side. I am a proud miami alum but I am just stating the facts.
This is a UM fan board not a UF encyclopedia. Why not rattle off all their positive facts? Turn it into a UF media guide.
Lmao. Gotta love how Franchise never tolerates anything remotely positive of our rivals - no matter the topic. I don't know what's bigger, your love for UM or hate for our rivals. Good ****.
Why pick?
What is more worthwhile is to point out how UF is going to benefit from a bogus statistic. "Acceptance rate". What people fail to acknowledge is that the State of Florida just keeps getting bigger, and there are a ****-ton of UF applicants who are delusional. People apply to UF because their idiot mommies and daddies could once get in to UF back when Florida was a smaller state, or they do it because they want to apply to a school that is a notch above what they are going to get into.
Let's not forget, UCF is now the largest undergrad school in the country. And while its a decent school, its growth isn't because it is the most amazing place to spend 4 years, it's because Florida is a huge state and UCF has a lot of land.
Florida hasn't suddenly become a "better" school or a more "desirable" school, and as for calling it such a great school on a par with Ivy League schools, the same **** thing happens to UT-Austin every year, because it is an affordable school in a huge state. Those demographics will always make the "best" state school in a huge state look better by comparison.
Meanwhile, UM gets its academic reputation knowing full well that a huge portion of the high school student population won't even consider UM due to application and tuition costs. When I started at UM, tuition was $8,800 for the year, and I was there for the annual 9.9% tuition increases. When I was in President's 100, I told a ton of kids to apply in spite of the tuition cost, as UM had so much scholarship money available. And in spite of that all, UM tuition is still the single largest factor why some high school students do not even consider applying to UM.
Regardless, some kids are going to apply to UF anyway, regardless of whether they will be rejected, because it is so cheap. And that will continue to feed the fake stat of "admission/rejection rate".
Oh, and don't even get me started on the desperation of the losers who choose to go to Santa Fe Community College (and then they tell their friends they go to school "in Gainesville"). Are we really supposed to believe that SFCC is the most desirable CC in Florida? I mean, some magazine probably named SFCC as the CC that most approximates an Ivy League school, so we should really believe that.